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muddy wrote:2/ Although this is not advice, it was from a HBS owner (I will admit the shop had been recently purchased and is run by this guys wife , but it doesnt get much better from her) :
"What do you do with the grain mate, just chuck it in the fermenter with the can and the sugar?"
Which store was this?
Cheers
He came dancing across the water.
Cortez, Cortez. What a killer!
To sanitize your fermenter use bleach and leave it for
a day or two.
Just rinse out your bottles with hot water and bottle again.
I HAD 4 neighbors over the age of 50 giving me this GREAT advice, you can guess how their beer tastes and why they seemed to make it over to my place every day to " have a beer with me".
Bought a BeerMachine online after a reccomendation from a friend ...... had never homebrewed so thought I would give it a go. Directions said 5 days fermentation and 5 days artificial carbonation in the fridge and brink "real" beer right from the keg. As you can guess it was not pleasent. $200 not well spent for one 10L brew !!! Anyway put up some signs at the local University and managed to recover $150....... lucky me!! The two guys who turned up to buy it were so excited that they were making their own beer for their party in two weekends ....... two more people who will never brew again.
Anyway, luckily I didnt give up and managed to make a decent brew by my second attempt using more conventional methods.
See it here if you want to see some clever marketing but DO NOT BUY!!!!
the only bad advice i got about HBS is don't bother.
ny 1st two batches have been failures. but what the heck, its a darn cheap hobby, (compared to my others, computers, juggling, unicycling....) and i'm sure i can make an awesome beer if i keep at it...
I don't know if this is bad advise as I have never actually attempted. One of my brew came out a little flat and I was talking to a friend about beer when I happened to mention this batch.
His advise was ' 1/4 cup of hot water, mix 6 teaspoon of sugar and put in fridge for 24hrs. In the mean time chill 12 tallies. After the 24hrs put 1.5 teaspoons in each bottle. Leave a couple of weeks and presto flat beer gone'.
My reply to him was that I won't use carbo drops ever again.
If anyone has attempted this, how did you go? Good results or crap.......
Son, a woman is like a beer. They smell good, they look good, you'd step over your own mother just to get one! But you can't stop at one. You wanna drink another woman! Homer Simpson
